Addressing Barriers to Palliative Care Use in Bladder Cancer

Completed

• Conditions: Muscle-Invasive Bladder Carcinoma; Bladder Cancer Stage III; Bladder Cancer Stage II; Bladder Cancer Stage IV
• Interventions: Other: Surveys

• Registration Number: NCT04598724
• Lead Sponsor: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Brief Summary

Investigators plan to establish an in-depth understanding of knowledge and beliefs about palliative care in advanced Bladder Cancer patients and their caregivers, and to identify factors associated with positive and negative experiences with palliative care services among those who have received them.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-10-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-10-16
• Study First Posted: 2020-10-22
• Study Start: 2020-12-22
• Primary Completion: 2021-05-10
• Study Completion: 2021-05-10
• Status Verified: 2022-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-12-30
• Last Update Posted: 2023-01-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 54

Inclusion Criteria

• Eligibility for both patient and caregiver participants will include:
• age ≥18 years
• able to speak and read English
• cognitively able to participate in study tasks
• willing to participate in surveys, semi-structured interviews, and/or focus groups
• able to participate in either a Zoom meeting or phone interview
• able to complete an emailed or paper survey
• Patient Participants: a diagnosis of muscle-invasive or locally advanced bladder cancer (stages II-IV).

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients and caregivers will be excluded if unable to provide verbal or written consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Bladder Cancer Patient Participants	Surveys	Participants will be scheduled for one-on-one interviews that will occur over Zoom or telephone.
Care Givers for Bladder Cancer Patient Participants	Surveys	Participants will be scheduled for one-on-one interviews that will occur over Zoom or telephone.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Development of palliative care knowledge and beliefs	12 Months	Thematic analysis of interviews transcriptions to identify the themes that underpin the development of palliative care beliefs among patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Proportion with accurate palliative care knowledge and beliefs	12 Months	Proportion of patients correctly answering each palliative care knowledge question.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Association between Bladder Cancer stage and palliative care knowledge	12 Months	Analysis of variance calculated for the mean number of subjects with each cancer stage correctly answering each palliative care knowledge question

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Moffitt Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States